Big History in Primary Education

ten times billion
The line of everything
ten times million
The line of man
ten times thousand
The line of culture
University of Amsterdam
June 13 - June 15 2013
Big History
in
Primary Education
Anne-Marie Poorthuis
Jos Werkhoven
ten times one
The line of myself
More information - this presentation:
www.BigHistoryPrimairOnderwijs.nl
(in progress)
www.BigHistoryPrimaryEducation.org
(introduction, soon more)
Big History in Primary Education???
Big History started in the nineties last century
Maria Montessori
To educate the human potential, 1947
Dutch version 1998
Cosmic Education
Kees Boeke
Wij in het heelal, het heelal in ons, 1959
Powers of ten, 1985 (Eams Office)
Cosmic View on education
Big History in Primary Education!!!
My Cosmic Education story as a Montessori teacher: “? ? ?”
A sense of wonder when I do not know!
I asked questions Ô
I started a quest in the eighties:
Questioning space and time
1
2
3
I
asked
questions
spa
ce
and
tim
e
The teacher and the child as a researcher
The course Big History in Primary Education
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Subject
Material for sentence analysis
of
Dr. Maria Montessori
1.
Direct Object
By m
By means
e an of wh
s of om
wha ?
t?
Why?
adverbial adjunct
CAUSE or REASON
Wh
o
adverbial adjunct
INSTRUMENT
m?
Wh
a
Who is it that?
What is it that?
t?
Indirect Object
Predicate
Number 1. helped
me questioning.
What happens
in the sentence?
Wh
en
adverbial adjunct
TIME
?
re
en
Wh
ce?
How?
B
Ofy w
whhom
om ?
? By
Of w
wh hat
at ?
?
Wha
t for
?
?
he
W
?
omat?
h
w
ithith wh
WW
adverbial adjunct
ACCOMPLISHMENT
t?
ha at?
w
o
wh
? T For
m
o
?
wh om
To r wh
Fo
adverbial adjunct
PLACE
adverbial adjunct
AGENT
adverbial adjunct
PURPOSE
adverbial adjunct
SOURCE
adverbial adjunct
MANNER
The network as ordering principle
There was a lot of good experience with the patterns of other material,
so the children were accustomed to work with these patterns.
The network structure of the
questions of Prins-Werker
(History in periods for
Montessori schools).
Prins-Werker was a Dutch
Montessori teacher, trained by
Maria Montessori.
Together with a famous Dutch
historian, Romein-Verschoor,
she developed the
structure of the questions to
study historian periods or
nations.
Note: the specific colors are added by
Jos Werkhoven
The network structure of the questions
of ‘de dierenbak’ (to study any animal);
Montessori material by Nico van Ewijk
This is the only’official’Montessori material
not made by Maria Montessori that is
accepted as Montessori material by the
AMI.
Depending on the age and abilities of the child the study can be
simple
or more complicated.
Building a book, project or dissertation
0.
Introduction
1.
Chapter 1
1.1 Section 1
1.2 Section 2
1.2.1 Sub Section 1
1.2.1.1 Sub sub Section 1
1.2.1.2 Sub sub Section 2
1.2.2 Sub Section 2
2.
Chapter 2
2.1 Section 1
2.1.1 Sub Section 1
2.1.2 Sub Section 2
2.2 Section 2
2.3 Section 3
3.
Chapter 3
3.1 Section 1
3.2 Section 2
3.2.1 Sub Section 1
3.3 Section 3
3.3.1.Sub Section 1
3.3.2 Sub Section 2
3.3.2.1 Sub sub Section 1
3.3.2.2 Sub sub Section 2
4.
Conclusion
5.
Bibliography
6.
Register
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Chapter 1
1.1 Section 1
1.2 Section 2
1.2.1 Sub Section 1
1.2.1.1 Sub sub Section 1
1.2.1.2 Sub sub Section 2
1.2.2 Sub Section 2
Repeating patterns of cosmos
Quote Maria Montessori:
“In congresses scientists
are seeking
for working methods
with their theory;
A human cell
Our solar system
Electrons around the nucleus
Our stimulated brain
Montessori teachers
are seeking
for theory
with their working methods.”
2.
0,01 meter high - 0,0001 m2 0,1 meter high - 0,01m2
Number 2. helped
me questioning
SPACE
The illustrations are from
the original publication;
Kees Boeke,
Wij in het heelal, het heelal in ons,
1 meter high - 1 m2
translation:
We in universe, universe in us.
1959,
Uitgeverij Muusses en Meulenhoff.
10 meter high - 100 m2
100 meter high - 10.000 m2
The illustrations are from
Eames Office
The journey of Kees Boeke
Powers of ten
Just 42 steps to
explore the whole kosmos
ten times billion
The line of everything
The lines of life
Looking for the borders
of human knowledge
ten times million
Jos Werkhoven
The line of man
3.
Number 3. helped
me questioning
TIME
ten times thousand
The line of culture
ten times one
The line of myself
WHY Big History in Primary Education?
Ô
The best thing happened to me in my work with children.
Ô
The wonder of the universe we live in.
The universe is a whole - education must be a whole too!
I didn’t saw that in my own mastership and the materials/
books we used. There’s is so much more to know.
Ô
Breaks through the boundaries of the school subjects.
It’s integrated learning.
Ô
Tell about the origin
of the earth:
physics, chemistry?
geology, geography?
metaphysics, astronomy?
origin
earth
archaeology?
history?
?
WHY Big History in Primary Education?
Ô
Children of 6 years old want to know!
They are involved.
Ô
It’s a BIG story.
A story is an attractive teaching method to inspire further
study:
- not easy to forget;
- it gives a whole - a whole with several essences;
- the essences are for further study.
Ô
Global citizenship; to improve democracy.
WHY Big History in Primary Education?
Ô
Inspires necessary renewal of education.
Our schoolsystem is still based on the time of the 19th and 20th
century.
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In primary education ‘Skills of the 21 century’ are discussed:
Skills of the 21th century:
Ô
- collaboration - co-operation;
- problem solving;
- ICT literacy;
- creativity;
- critical thinking;
- communication;
- social and cultural skills.
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www.BigHistoryPrimairOnderwijs.nl
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(in progress)
www.BigHistoryPrimaryEducation.org
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(introduction, soon more)
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Course Big History in Primary education
- based on: the three frameworks (teacher and child)
- based on: childrens portfolio (child)
- based on: organising in relation with everything
there is (school)
- based on: ‘The enabling environment’
Enabling environment
object
social
order
or
ld
vi
ew
w
io
d
pe
r
ns
iti
ve
se
l
ia
through the child to a new world
child
er
at
m
develoopment human potential
the discovery of the child
ce
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e wo
fre of
space
y
ili t
ib
aw
ar
e
ne
s
ss
po
s
cosmic
order
time
e
lv
vo
in
help me to do it by myself
t
en
m
making school
personal
order
vi
sib
ili t
y
education
biological
order
subject
aby
b
ry the
e
v
E ws
kno
scientific method!
!
Make an
observation
?
Form a
hypothesis
Perform the experiment
Analyze
the data
Report your findings
!
Invite others to
reproduce the results
?
Big History can help us
to improve
Primary Education